DevNet suggests ATOM as a text editor for code, and it is pretty powerful especially when you add packages. Unfortunately, I ran into some issues when looking to add it to my Ubuntu box and since DevNet has a CentOS Read more…
Because I clearly have too much time on my hands with trying to switch skillsets to dCloud development, I decided to spend some time with Cisco DevNet as well. This website is amazing! I think we can all agree that Read more…
The Written Exam In some ways, the CCIE R/S Written exam is more of a bear than the lab. It covers an incredible amount of material, far more than the lab exam, though not quite as deep. Some people advocate Read more…
As I start to learn new skills for my new position, one of the things that was suggested to me was to look into nested virtualization. In my ignorance, I didn’t know what was meant by nested virtualization, but it Read more…
This post should be the most useful to people planning for their own CCIE journey, and so I’ll take the most time to try and add good detail here. After deciding to get my CCIE, I needed to determine what Read more…
Okay. Dustin over at www.packetsmurf.org finally guilted me into doing this (not directly, but by posting his write-up of his CCIE journey). Before we can examine my CCIE journey, though, we should examine from where I started, because from where Read more…
As part of my new initiative to learn Linux and VMWare Administration, I started looking at what it would take to put together a homelab server. There’s just one minor complication. I live in an apartment and don’t have an Read more…
I’m leaving Cisco Advanced Services in a week, and I’ll be starting a new job with the Cisco Customer Engagement Center of Excellence (Formerly Proof of Value Services). This organization includes CPOC and dCloud, and so it’s time I retreaded very Read more…
Thursday morning was pretty slow. I checked out of the Airbnb, checked my luggage into the concierge at the convention, and headed off to breakfast where I found (finally) the last person on my scavenger hunt and got a bonus Read more…
Tuesday was the day of the CCIE Party. After grabbing breakfast (which was free and not bad) I went to World of Solutions to continue check out the Cert Lounge, WISP, DevNet, dCloud (This is a pattern for the rest Read more…
